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The roar of the grease paint always comes from inside Krasnov's Clown Car [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
It now comes down to more mass action. Should a crowd have surrounded Rumeysa Ozturk at the moment when the undercover ICE agents kidnapped her.
At around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, a man in a black hoodie stopped Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on the street in Somerville, Massachusetts. She tried to walk by, but he grabbed her. She screamed, and it seemed like… [image or embed]
Let’s begin with Trump’s attempted dismantling of the administrative state. To appreciate what’s going on, one doesn’t have to point to any foreign Führerprinzip; one only has to investigate the actual history of the US presidency.
Since the founding of the American republic in 1776, the presidency has grown in power while Congress, the supposed representative of the people’s will, has abdicated its responsibilities. This is most evident in the realm of foreign policy. The US Congress is constitutionally responsible for declaring war, but it has only done so eleven times, the last being in 1942.
Since that moment, though, the United States has been in a state of near-constant war. In addition to the well-known Korean, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq Wars, in the decades after World War II, the United States has intervened against foreign societies, according to the political scientists Sidita Kushi and Monica Duffy Toft, with “the threat, display, or direct usage of force” over two hundred times. And what is true in foreign policy is true in other issue areas — the president has increasingly become the equivalent of an elected monarch. Put another way, there has been an ongoing, if usually ignored, constitutional crisis since at least the 1940s.
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For much of the last century, the United States has made effective use of what the historian Adam Goodman has termed “the deportation machine.” During and after World War I, President Woodrow Wilson, under the authority of the Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act of 1918, and the Immigration Act of 1918, arrested and deported radicals and antiwar activists; as the historian Kim Phillips-Fein recently highlighted, more than 550 people accused of political radicalism were deported as the result of the infamous Palmer Raids of 1919–20.
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